The Ashkenazi Revolution

170In their use of the literary method, Lavon and Prof. Rotenstreich attack,over and over again, the pioneer-workers. Of course, the “Youth Circle”has no ideology, and this is not the fault of the young people but the fault ofthe fathers. But nevertheless, there is a concentration, in this circle, ofpeople of action who are capable of making entire lands fertile:Agriculturalists, architects, manufacturing technicians, experts in matters ofwater and so on. However, of what value are the ideological “goods” thatLavon and Rotenstreich are selling? These “goods” lack any value. Theylack the ability to inspire faith even for one child. Its entire content isaggressiveness and a struggle by a literary cult that has nothing toarticulate, and because of this, it imagines itself able to inspire more faithfor “The Foundation” than those who do have something to articulate.The man who sabotaged, and who covered the youth of Mapai with shame,was the author Yizhar Smilansky, who wrote regarding the elders in the toptier of his party, in an article in “Davar” July, 1963, words of slander thatthe opponents of Mapai hadn’t written for a long time; words of slander thelikes of which one can find only in one place: In the Revisionistnewspapers during the time of the libel that followed the murder ofArlozoroff, and in those parts of this journalism that continued thistradition into later times. Thus wrote, about the leaders of his party, aKnesset member of Mapai, whose party had raised him up and taken careof him. There is no doubt that Yizhar Smilansky is a talented man, but inhis insane enthusiasm to find new words, he forgets that the word is noteverything, but it is merely a container that contains ethics, content andlogic. Between the ways of Yizhar Smilansky, who sullies the name of hisparty, which suffers in the throws of an internal crisis, and the ways of UriTzvi Grinberg, who betrayed his party when it stood at the front of theUnderground, there is much similarity. Both see themselves as gods, forwhom the laws of human decency do not apply. Both of them demand forthemselves, by virtue of their magical rule over the Hebrew word, a sort ofunique priestly-extraterrestrial status. If the “Youth Circle” has a specialtask, then it should be, first and foremost, to free its party from the literaryrhetoricalmethod, and to entrench in it the methods that are founded uponthe practical experience and execution that has accumulated in the land and